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Best of 2011: Places

12.31.11 – 20:12

The five best places I visited this year: Windsor Castle. Mt St Helens (from the Johnston Ridge Observatory). As far as I know, only the second time I’ve been to the north side. Chatsworth House Bonfire Night. It was not this cloudy, and the fireworks were amazing. Jökulsárlón (glacier river lagoon), Iceland Every other place [...]

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Best of 2011: Books

12.31.11 – 12:12

The five best books I read this year: Bess of Hardwick by Mary S. Lovell Biography of the matriarch of the Cavendish family (today the dukes of Devonshire). A fascinating, shrewd, and incredibly wealthy Elizabethan woman (second only to Elizabeth herself), Bess was involved in all the political intrigue of the day: she and her [...]

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Best of 2011: Movies

12.30.11 – 18:12

The five best movies I saw this year: The King’s Speech (2010) A reluctant king (George VI) conquers his stutter with the help of a speech therapist. We accidentally saw this at the Odeon Leicester Square, the super fancy London theatre that usually hosts movie premieres. Neither of us could figure out how to operate [...]

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Best of 2011: Words

12.29.11 – 19:12

Five excellent words brought to me by England: Oi \ˈȯi\ interjection. Used to attract attention or to express exasperation or dismay. Almost exactly like American hey. Scarper \ˈskär-pər\ intransitive verb. Flee, run away. Spice \ˈspīs\ noun. Derbyshire for sweets (British for candy). Plashy \ˈpla-shē\ adjective. Like splashy, but different: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the [...]

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Kevin, Kevinita, and the Childrens

08.08.11 – 19:08

In case you were getting worried—and it’s totally understandable if you were—Kevin and Kevinita and 80 percent of their children are doing just fine. Kevin had a rough couple of weeks there, in which he mysteriously lost every single one of his tail feathers. But now they are growing back in at a remarkable rate. [...]

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The News

08.01.11 – 20:08

You may be wondering why you suddenly got four posts of mainly pictures in quick succession, just in time for August 1. This is because: Things Are Happening, People. First, I started a brand new shiny job today! An actual one, where I have to go to an office five days a week. And also [...]

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London &c: Chatsworth Gardens

07.31.11 – 08:07
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London &c: Chatsworth Art

07.31.11 – 08:07
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London &c: Chatsworth

07.31.11 – 07:07

Chatsworth House is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, considered one of the best stately homes in the country, and a mere 10 miles from our house, nestled into hills of the Peak District. Parts of it look like this:

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London &c: The Cotswolds

07.29.11 – 11:07

The Cotswolds, one of England’s most beloved areas (hills, farmland, thatched roofs), happen to lie more or less directly between Oxford and our house, so we spent a leisurely afternoon stopping places for antique, ice cream, and Shakespearean purposes. Bourton-on-the-Water. This particular body of water is so shallow, the ducks are actually standing on the [...]

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